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Abacus Group Growth Exceeds 30 Percent - Managed Cloud Services Provider For Alternative Asset Funds Expands To 100-Plus Employees

Date 05/10/2016

Abacus Group, a leading provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative asset funds, today announced that its year-over-year growth has exceeded 30 percent through the end of the third quarter of 2016. The company’s employee count also exceeded 100 as it expanded its footprint in the Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco markets.   

US, European Officials To Hold Planned Coordination Exercise On Cross-Border Resolution Planning

Date 05/10/2016

Senior officials representing resolution authorities in the United States and Europe will on Monday hold the second in an ongoing series of planned exercises to enhance coordination on cross-border resolution.

ThinkMarkets Launch Arabic Website

Date 05/10/2016

ThinkMarkets, a global multi asset brokerage, have today launched their Arabic website, catering to the needs of the Arabic speaking FX trading community.

ESMA Consults On Product Governance Guidelines To Safeguard Investors

Date 05/10/2016

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has opened a consultation on product governance guidelines under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) regarding the target market assessment by manufacturers and distributors of financial products.

SGX Index Edge To Calculate Nikkei Asia300 Series

Date 05/10/2016

Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Nikkei Inc. (Nikkei) today announced a collaboration that will see SGX Index Edge developing and managing the headline Nikkei Asia300 Index and related indices.

Boerse Stuttgart Generates Turnover Of Around EUR 6.3 Billion In September - Trading In Investment Products Exceeds Total For Previous Month

Date 05/10/2016

Based on the order book statistics, turnover at Boerse Stuttgart in September 2016 was around EUR 6.3 billion. The lion’s share of this total was attributable to securitised derivatives with a trading volume of around EUR 2.7 billion. Within this category, leverage products accounted for roughly EUR 1.2 billion of the total, while investment products contributed over EUR 1.5 billion – an increase of nearly 5 percent on the previous month.

10.5 Billion Dirhams Of Facilities Financing Margin Trading On ADX - The Service Financed A Large Segment Of Traders – Al Blooshi

Date 05/10/2016

The total value of margin trading in Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has reached 10.5 billion Dirhams during the first nine months of 2016.

FCA Publishes Proposals On Transaction Cost Disclosure

Date 05/10/2016

The Financial Conduct Authority has today published proposed rules and guidance aimed at standardising the disclosure of the transaction costs incurred by pension investments.

Investor Activity On GPW Group Markets In September 2016

Date 05/10/2016

• Decrease of the value of trade in equities on the Electronic Order Book[1] on the Main Market by 2.8 percent YoY
  
• Historically high volume of trade in single-stock futures at 178.9 thousand contracts, representing an increase of 58.3 percent YoY
  
• Decrease of the value of trade in bonds on the Electronic Order Book on Catalyst by 9.6 percent YoY 
  
• Increase of the volume of spot transactions in gas by 44.3 percent YoY and the volume of spot transactions in electricity by 25.8 percent YoY

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission Bans Chen Chia Hui For Life

Date 05/10/2016

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Ms Chen Chia Hui, a former employee of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), from re-entering the industry for life following her conviction for bribery.